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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
The Train Wreckers.

PAoLA. KAN, June 13.-The trial Of the
Wyandotte train wreckers was resumed to-
day. Governor Johnson arrived on the noon
train and is conducting the examination Of
thu defense's witnesses. 81. johnson and
William Felt were examined this afte noon
on the part of the defense, and both stated
that the track where the wreck occurred was
in a bad shape at the time. There wers sew
eral rotten tles, several fish- plates unloos-
ened and some of the spikes could easily be
pulled out with the fingers. These were all
who were examined for the defense. The
court adjourned ut $3.50 until to-morrG "
morning, to give john on a chance to con-
fer with some of his witnesses. There are
several Knights OF Labor present. Every
incoming train brings in new arrivals. None
of Lloyd's intimate friends are present. Mr..
Warner will not appear at all. Fred New
port, an associate of Lloyd's, will be tried
next for the same offense. Both OF these
cases will command the attention of the
court during the present term.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
DIsAPPEARED AT DENVER
After Coming in Possession Of . Fortune
of $4,000.

After Coming in Possession Of Fortune
of $50, 900.
DETROIT, MICH, June 1.-THE Evening
Journals special from Vassar. says: Last
fall Mrs. Albert Brooks, of Juniata, Tuscola
county, went to Denver to take possession Of
$50, eco in cash and real estate lett her, she
said, by an uncle. She reached Denver safe
ly and received the money and made ar
raugements for the management of the
property. Since that time nothing has
been heard of the woman, and several weeks
ago Mr.. Brooks went west to un-
ravel the mystery if possible. He ret turned
and reports that no clue was found to the
missing woman, and that he had plat ed the
matter in the hands of the detectives. A
sister of Mrs. Brooks, who also received
$8O, 600 from her uncle, he's put $1,000 in
the hands of the Denver officers, to be used
in finding her sister. Since Mr.. Brooks re-
turn home he received letter from his wife
mailed at Boston, but Endorsed by the pest
office authorities as having been forwarded
from California for mailing. The letter is q
plea for help. It says that she
Mrs. Brooks) is held captive by gang of
men Who have already secured $4,000 of
her money and are determind to have it all.
The woman's captors have tortured her in
every imaginable way. She does, not say
where her place of COL fnement is. Last
week Denver detective, at work upon the
case, wired Mr.. Brooks that he had discov-
cred the building in which Mrs.
Brooks was imprisoned, but hao not
bee = able to communicate with her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
Fighting for a CROSSING.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, June ia spirited
railroad fight developed here to might
The Indianapolis, Decatur & Springfield
company cutters the union pas
senger sta ion over the tracks of the
Indianapolis, Cincinnati, st. Louis d Chi
cago company, u.ir g 800 or 7OO fest Of that
line, and has been paying snug sum
for the privilege. They grew tired
proposed building track of their own. To
do this it was necessary to cross the track
of the other company. Tonight the Deca-
tur people put gang of LOO men
at work and the crossing was almost COM
pleted before tie officers of the other oompa-
ny learned what was going on. As soon as
they were informed they ordered locomotive
and force of men to the scene and attempt
ed to at ,p the work. ] he crossing was sort
of temporary affair, intended to establish the
legal right of the Decatur people and the
"Big Four" people tried to demolish it by
running a locomotive upon 1t. The locomO-
tive was thrown from the track ard while the
"Blg Four" were engaged in replacing
it the Decatue people y, practically compelled
smother m )orary crossing, blockaded With
q locOmot,v, ana several freight cars. The
Decatur Leople claim that they have
established their legal rights, and will in the
morning proceed to complete the work. The
big Four" officials threaten resistance and
q re GUAR war is expected.
LATER.
At 1890 large detail of police was Or
dered to the scene, riot being expected.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
DEPENDENT Pension Bill.

MILWAUKEE WIS, June 1O.-A special to
the Euening Wisconsin, from Madison, Wis,
says: Adjuta1t Gen. raj Gray, u the Grand
Army of the Republic, is busily epgsged IN
issuing TO all posts in the country an i'm
portant document in the nature Of q, depend
emit pension bill, the passage of which viii
be urged upon the rext congress. 1t was
drafted by the national pension committee
of the Grand Army Of the Republic, COM
posed Of the following members Of the rder:
George 8. Merrill, of Lawrence, Macs; Lou1s
Wagner, of Philadelphia; james Tanner, OF
Brooklyn, N. Y; John @. Line1aD, OF PenA-
COOK, n g., and John 8. Hountze, Of Tole-
do. ihls committee was appointed by Com
mander-in-C Chief Fairchild, under reeo-
luton of the national encampment Inc
bill provides for pensioning dependents par
ents of soldiers who lett no wife or children
that all persons who served three months
and were honorably discharged, a. q are
suffering from mental or physical dlsab11tys
not result of their own vicious habits,
shall be entitled to receive $12 per month.
Their rank shall not be COZ sidered. In the
Gaze of the death of the invalid pensioneri
his wife children or parents ehall be placed
on the pension roll on established rates with
ont regard TO the cause Of the death OF the
pensiouer. Pensions for minor children
mail be IS. ard in case the child Ii insane or
an idiot the pension she'll continue for life.
II impoees . fine of $500 or two years. inn
prieonment for an aRrnt or attorney VINO
accepts moro then $40. payable only upon
order Of tho commissioners OF pensions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
A Cyclone

ST. Lou1s, Mo-, june ga special from
Marshall, Mo-, says q cyclone visited the
county yesterday afternoon about 4 o'clock,
doing much general damage, but very severe
damage at Little Rock. about fifteen miles
from here on the east border of the county
and lying upon the river. The storm came
from the southwest, striking the front Of
Henry Oberdyke's residence. The house
was literally lifted from its foundation,
turned partially around and dropped almost
q complete wreck several feet from its former
resting place. The hu.band. wife and
several children, seeing the storm coming,
sought safety in the cellar, while the house
was lifted from over them. Oberdyke's
house was destroyed, two horses killed, or
chard completely uprooted and twenty acres
of wheat wiped out. The two-s story resi-
dence of r. P. Davidson was urroofed and
lifted from its foundation. The frame resi-
dence of Jeese Henrick was almost totally
destroyed. The houses were all in the same
vicinity. The storm covered space Of
fifty yards wide, leaving destruction to all
outhouses, fences and trees IN its scope.
The storm was accompanied by the heaviest
rain for months.
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BOSTON BEAUTY.
The Craze Of Several Young Ladies for
Nude Photographs.

The Craze Of Several Young Ladies for
Nude photographs.
BosroN, June 11.-Elmer Chickering,
photographers, arrested recently for printing
and selling inde cent photographs, has de-
cided to offer no defense. After the exam
ination of the witness for the prosecution,
the case was referred to the grand jury.
Chickering is widely known, and has for
his customers the most prominent families
of Back Bsy5 The whole trouble grew out
of his having taken photographs Of some
fifty young ladies Of Boston's vealthiest
families In costumes scarcely moro elab-
crate than those in which the figures in
some Of the famous pictures in q Paris So
lon are draped. The craze for full length
photographs in scanty attire first seized
hold upon half dozen young society
bellies who resided on Commonwealth ave-
nue. last fall. They posed in Chickering'S
Some of the pictures we're taken single after
tho style OF Greek goddesses. and moro par
ticularly "Venus Rising From the Sea-"
while others were large groups in imitation OF
"Nymphs at Bath, and other famous works
Of art The young women preferred not to
reveal their identity, and gave tho names Of
servants at their homes where they desired
QlOO16 SoAVs Au100 W0oA6 0R0 V0lCk0k1OK
narrowly escaped exposure when letter
accidentally fell into tho hands of an unsus-
picious parent who opened the letter but
failed to recognize his daughters graceful
figure. The old gentleman said nothing but
laid it away in his desk for his own personal
edifcation, and his daughter secured it.
The prospect of the photographs be-
ing produced in court and put on file
- evidence 80 thoroughly alarmed the
young ladies that they have succeeded in
having them suppressed. As q compromise
nude photographs of some unknown young
women have been offered in evidence as
sample and the others have disappeared.
Chickering refused to give the names of the
young ladies. He said: 81 have made no
admissions and no denials and don't mean
to. If the grand jury bringsin an i,dict-
ment I have very good defense without
telling anything about my patrons or their
pictures. 1t is case of blackmail by my
old foreman, who printed the pictures and
was discharged for incompetency. I can
show this and that is all I need do"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
WORK OLA wArKRsPOur.

Three Hundred People Made Homeless
and Dependent Upon the Charity Of
Neighbour.
PTTTsBuRa, PA, june IA special from
Johnstown. Pa, says: The food yesterday
was caused by . waterspout west Of Hoo
versville, Somerset county. The village
was entirely under water, and the destruc-
ton of property is great. The bridge above
here was destroyed. The destruction Of prop
erty at Hooversville 10 enormous. The work
Of the food 10 appalling. Twenty residences
were washed OF their foundations. At least
one hundred families in this borough alone
lost everything they had in their houses.
The water having subsided, the scene TO- day
IL one Of decentralization and ruin. Tho
yards and streets are blocked With debris
and houses and mud, and multtudes Of
women and children are standing about
weeping and mourning over their ruined
homes. In Grubtown, Worthwhile, Miners
vile, Cambria City and Coopersdale the
same scene is presented, and it il estimated
that in the suburbs and this city 800 people
were temporarily rendered homeless and de-
pendent for shelter upon the charity Of
their more fortunate neighb0rs.
Mrs. D. Merrell, relict Of Hon. ]. n. Mer-
rell, died from heart disease last night, pro-
duced, it is supposed, by excitement caused
Colonel James N. Cooper, q wealthy and
Influential citizen Of Ooopcrdale, also
dropped dead from over-excitement. A
number of other deaths from the flood are
reported, but the rumors lack con6rma-
tion.
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MARKET REPORTS.

Kansas City Grain and Produce Market
KANSAS CITY. June II. 1887.
Live Stock Indicator reports:
FLOUR-Very dull Nothing except in mixed
Quotations are for established braus in car
lots per half barrel in sacks follows: Xxx. SOC:
s. so6l Il; fancy, s. Sei IS: patent, 81 soe
2O1; rye. 81 sO@1 SO. From city mills Sc
WHEAT-Receipts at regular elevator since
last report SIS bushels; Withdrawals, ii,e00
bushels leaving stock in store q reported to the
board of trade to day, LAS.
The market on change to-day was weaker.
june, 72c bid. Ds1c asked; July. CSC bid, 7shc
asked; august SIC bid, no oferings.
COhN Receipts at regular elevators siuce
las4reports; 1883 bushels and withdrawal. s.4s1
bushels, leaving stock in store ~ reported to the
board OF trade to-day, 288, SAG bushels.
No. cash. 20 bids, asao asIea: june, s 600 bu 20
s az S!d ss July $40 buahels at soc; August
OATS-No cash. 2oc bid. 2eXc asked;
june, % bids, 2sKo asked; July. 2oc bid. ao
ss kT ASsost, ZIG bid a. s!hs ssked q. a.
jected cash. no bids nor offerings-
Per dozen: ROSTERS, 81 zoe q Is; turkeys. g:
Dreese Chickens. Sc; turkeys, u01Sc.
EGGS Steady, 9hc.
BUTrER-Good, creamery. fancy. sc; gond
Sc; hns dairy. &c; store paoxsd. 12h@lsc;
HAY,ste.dy: Fancy small baled. go %.
per ton free ON board oars. Car lots, SO % per
CORN MEAL-.Green, TO; dried. 600; chop
selloT 70E bulk; 75c sacked;
FLAXSEED-0Oc.
BkAN-Bulk. $50. sacked, Co,
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On the Warmth.

TUCSON, AR1z June Son the morning
of the killing of Mike Grace and the narrow
escape Of Billy Williams and Billy Lee from
two Apaches at Tompora Gulch, eighty five
miles south of Crittenden. The Indians are
evidently separated in parties, one of which
is already located. Their signal fires we're
seen in Santa Rita mountains Mon
day night. Lieutenant Jordon
has been ordered to pursue
even into Mexico. The Indians are now
between his troops and Captain Law
toms. A troup of picked men left
Fort Apache last night to try to head of the
hostiles. who we're seen IN Santa Rita Mon
day evening. Mike Grace, who VAS killed
this morning. is brother of ex-Mayor
Grace, of New York.
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Quilted by Fire.

81. LOUIS, June IA, 100 a. NAT O'Clock
this morning the large stable of the Lafay
otto Brewing company,on the corner of Cass
avenue and Eighteenth street, was Quilted
By fire, involving loss of about $4,000.
A half dozen valuable draft horses we're
burned. Several teamsters and their fam
lilies, who lived in the part of
the building lost all their effects
they themselves having hardly time to es-
cape in their plight clothes. Almost stimuli
taneously q fire broke out in the extensive
stables of the Mound City atreet car
company on Cosgrove and
Jefferson avenue, and they are now
Earning furiously. but no particulars have
yet been received down town. A second
alarm has been turned in and extensive dam
age 10 apprehended.
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A Domestic Tragedy.

KANSAS CRY, June 8.-The Times Hanni-
bal, Mo-, special reports q rrible domestic
tragedy at that place tonight. Lincoln
Cook, ilored, has lived away from his wife
and child for two months. She has been
living, with her brother, Carter Jack
con. Cook went to the house TO-
night and demanded possession of his
little girl, who was in care of it's mother.
Mrs. Cook refused and started to carry the
child out of the room when Cook shot her in
the breast. Jackson then interfered, but
was shot through tie head aud instantly
killed. The murderer surrendered. Mrs.
Cook may recover,
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Returning tho Flag,

AUSTIN, Tex, June Ex-Governor Ross
has received the following letter from the
adjutant general of the United States army:
1.-THE president of the United States hav-
ing approved the recommendation that all
the flags in the custody of the war depart
mept be returned to the authorities of The
respective states in which the
regiments which bore them were organized
for such final deposition as they may deter
mine, am instructed by the honorable Sec
rotary Of war to make You, in the name of
the war department, tender of flags now
in this Office belonging to volunteer
organizations of the state of Texas, in dis
charging this pleasant duty. I beg you
will advise me of yonr wishes in the matter.
It is the intention in returning each flag to
give it's history as far as it is possible to do
so. stating the circumstances of it's capture
and recovery.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
Quietly Lynched.

XKN1A, O., June 13-At jamestown, IN
this county, on Saturday night, at about
midnight Peter Batters, colored man,
rape upon an old colored lady, Martha Thorn
as, aged nearly Is years. The aseailant was
arrested, but broke through the guard and
escaped. The neighborhood was greatly OK
cited over the affair, and the fugitive negro
was hunted down. In the fair grounds the
dead body Of Batters was found hanging
this morning, cold and dead. It ID gener-
ally known that the work was quietly done
by the infatuated citizens Of Jamestown in
the dead hour Of night, and strict secrecy
was sworn on the spot by the avengers.
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Sensational Developments Expected.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June 13.-The t-ial of
Cora Lee for the murder of Sarah Graham
beg un here this morning. Tho attendance
is large and inquiries from many parts of the
country show that the interest in the case has
not subsidized, although it is not as Intense as
when the parties charged with the CRIME
were arrested. The jury was secured with
out diffcalty on account of the lapse of time
and number of people who
have come into the county
we're therefore not familiar with the facts
concerning the crime. Several witnesses
were examined to-day but nothing ELECTED
wit, which the public were not made famil-
lar at the time of the preliminary examina-
ton, It Is understood that the defendent
will 60 up IN the stand herself. before the
trial closes, xnsn dramatic and sensation
ell time may be exnected. Judge Bland. q
brother of Silver Dick, il presiding.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-06-18
A Strange Accident

LOUISVILLE, KY.. june 13-At an early
hour this morning Mr.. A. g. Lazebrook was
awakened BY q noise in the bedroom Of his
wife, which adjoined his own in thsir res
ideDce on Van Berries avenue, this city.
Upon entering he found the roou unOOcu-
pied, and going to the window, which was
open, he saw PROSTATE form on the ground
below. investigation proved this to be his
wife. ~ho expired shortly after being car
ried INTO the house. It is thought that she
walked out of the window in her sleep, or it
may be she lost her balance while opening
the shutters.
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OoRNERINa COFFEE.
It Knocks Out Several Large Firms, Ono
for Over d, 90. 900.

It Knocks Out Several Large Firms, Ono
for Over 600. 900.
NV YoRx, June l3.-The opening of the
coffee exchange this morning was the most
excited in its history. In the limited space
allotted for clerks and customers in the ex-
change at the junction Of Pearl and B
streets there was an excited throng. Almost
every broker outside Of the bear clique had
orders to sell. Buying orders to-day gener-
ally came from Gruner Crossman d
Co. These firms represented the clique
which first started the boom in coffee about
eighteen months ago and caused it to adj
vance 6@Sc per pound. At tbs latter figure
q number of Rio Janeiro operators, called
the Brazilian party, who had been on the
market all the way up to Is cents, changed
their position and became buyers and CAR
RED the price above q cente, which figure
1t crossed about two weeks ago. They are
now said TO be loaded heavily, one house
being reported to hold O,OO0 bags for their
account The Orossman party, on the other
side, who are buyers to day, are credited
with unloading Braziiian around the high
est figures.
Au0 10llUr0 VI HI We AxUOiO % NVsS OVA00
merchants, has just been announced. They
were caught largely lorg on the decline in
the market, which has just declined ninety.
five points further and is very active, e1-
cited and panicky. More failures are ex-
p.cted to follow. R. G. Arnold was the orig
inator OF the coffee exchange, and its first
president. he was formerly Of the firm Of
Arnold, Sturgis d Co., the largest coffee
house in the United States. His former
country seat on the sound is now known a.
"Oak Point" The failure is supposed to
Rio htuses to remit margine in time. The
liabilities are stated to be about $1,OO0,OOO,
and Nav York bank is said to be heavily
involved. The liabilities of Mackay &Small
are estimated at from $50, 600 to $500, 600
The market is now steadier. Grun, Joseph,
]. U. Donshue, and other strong houses
bought largely at the bottom, 80 "a 70 sus-
tain the market, and make the losses a.
small as possible.
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Granted tho Advance.

PIrreBURa, Pa, June 1.-THE action Of
81. O. Frick d Co. in granting an advance OF
12X per cent TO the coke workers occasioned
intense surprise. It seems that Carnegie,
Phipps d Co. obtained control of the coke
workers, and az their steel interests are par
amount, they literally froze Mr.. Frick out
and informed the syndicate that they would
grant the advance whethIr they followed
suit or not. Thie action virtually disrupts
The syndicate, and outing in the price OF
ooke il sure to follow. Frick d 90. make
one-fourth of all the coke produced in the
Connellsville region, end it is expected that
work will be resumed in all the works by
Monday. s
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IRISH ,Mm1aRANrs.
Seventy to BE Sent Back. ~ They are Al
Legged TO BE Paupers.

Seventy to he Sent Back. - They are Al
legged to BE Paupers.
New YoRx, June 1O.-Counsel for the In
man Steamship company applied to-day to
Judge Brown in the United States distxice
court for writ of habeas corpus In the case
of the seventy Irish immigrants, whose ~
turn to I.eland On the City Of Chester to-
morrow has been ordered By the immigra-
ton commissioners. They were ssnt here
by the British government, and II
is alleged they are paupers.
The case viii be argued next Tuesday. Too
thousand seven hundred and twenty eight
emigrants were landed ut Castle 0arden.
The new rule to hold all children under Is
years Of ago, unless accompanied By proper
guardians, went into effect this morning.
Several boys were found to be alone and
they were held for investigation.
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Deplorable Scenes.

DUBLIN, June 8.-The gunboat Banterer
took the sheriff of county Glare and body
of police to Glare Island, where they evict-
ed twelve tenents. The scenes witnessed
while the writs of eviction we're being ex-
ecuted were deplorable.
During the evietions at Cadyke to day two
women, belonging to the Tuohy family, de-
fed the sheriff and police for an hour by
throwing boiling water and whitewaeh upon
them. The family was finally evicted, and
the women were arrested.
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A Farmer Murdered.

Kansas CrrY, June 10-The Times 81,
Joseph, No. special says: Joseph Payne, =
prominent young farmer living twelve miles
south Of this place, left homo Last night
20 attend church festival q
Wallace. This morning his dead body
was found by the wsyside with bullGo
through the lungs There ID no clue to -
although il was undoubtedly
done BY an enemy, ~ his pockets vero ~
in that township IN The past six ysarA
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ARKANsAs CRY, KAN, June 1.-THE edit
tors aud representatives Of the press Of the
state of Kansas we're right royalty received
here this morning by members Of tho press,
city council and the real estate exchange, and
escorted in carriages about this city, not
forgetting the grand Santa Fe improve
ments making, after which they were driven
to the Gladstone hotal and the editorial ap-
petite appeased.
Another generous rain fell last night,
making magnificent corn.
Our farmers are in the midst of harvest
ing beautiful wheat crop.
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Kansas City Live stock Market.
KAuaAa Cr~v T,,r. ~ soc

CATTLE-Receipts2 os6 head: shipments, 49,
head. Market on change was allow and weak
loo lower for shipping butchers steers and cows
Good to choice - 2s@4 50; common to medium
8 50G4 Is; etockers, 81 0v9s 3; feeding steers,
s 9On IS; COWS, 81 oO6375.
HOGS Receipts. 7.4S9 head; shipments s2s
bead. Market opened STRONG, closing v az.
Good to choice, a 0O04 90; common TO medium
et15 Z 0s; skips and pigs, = OOel co.
SHEEP-Receipts 81 head; shipments -.
heod. Market wno stea y. Good % choice
- O00s 50; common to medium. 2oo07 n